Sunday, October 29, 2006

So Timbre was good, I guess.

Caught up with Nick after service to decide plans for the night and my goodness, he was way too grumpyyyy and I feel weird. Normally, I am the grumpy and whiny one, having the need to complain about every single thing that crossed my path. But I guess that's what army does to you, Artillery in fact, haha. He was so tired so he started rambling about wanting to go home, or somebody's house. And when he walked into BK, he started ranting: 'BK stinks. It's hot in here. There's no aircon. I want to go out. I don't like this place...' You get my drift. Quite funny but he became more normal after his meal(thank God!).

And so karen didnt show up :( *boo* I should so count my blessing that I had the company of two very charming guys last night right? I mean, they read my blog and everything. If I said otherwise, I should most probably get into trouble. Haha. But it was good. We met Ernest and set off, in a search to find Timbre(none of us knew how to go there by public transport). The funny thing is, God seemed to be setting us off in a walking marathon. Almost every direction we decide to take ends up being the wrong one. It wasn't me I swear, cause I kept quiet. Those two army boys just couldn't get their bearings right. *ha!*

So we walked, got lost and nearly settled for CHIJMES. But we hung around SMU campus for a while more and finally found our way to the place. The place is great actually. Really cool and laid-back. Best thing about the area was that it is not crowded at all. I think that should be considered a feat because it was a beautiful saturday night and it is supposed to be crowded everywhere since it's Singapore and it's Halloween. So it wasn't crowded though the place is great, which kind of makes me glad. The service was good and best part of the deal - 3 local bands were scheduled to play through the night.

Local bands are interesting, I would like to hear from them more. Ernest was being really funny and it made everything more interesting. Like how he pretend to act like the lead singer from one of the band or how he makes fun of the performers. Okay it sound wrong that I find it funny that he is making fun of people but you know, Ern being Ern is really very hilarious. And then there was Nick, being high on his Long Island. You should really check out both of their faces when they got their drinks. Seriously, I so want to take a photo and publish it to everyone I know. The looks of contented humans. Haha.

We had our individual picks, then shared a pizza, followed by the apple drink before we went quite broke. Drinks were normal and usual but the pizza was good. The triple mushroom.. sigh wish I had more money. Then they kept disturbing me. Like when I used 'lucid' they made such a big fuss over it.

Ern: oh lucid~ You know what lucid means?
Me: erm, sober? In the right state of mind.
Ern: wow, somebody knows how to use lucid ah.
Nick: oh so your english actually improve when you are high?
Ern+Nick: *laughed insanely*

Seriously, what's with lucid? It's just a normal English word! My english has always been good(or so I hope) and I wasn't even high when I used lucid. I was so not high because I had milk. I am not Joanne, I don't go high on milk! Alright, case closed. Anyway, beside funny conversations like these, half the time we were yelling at each other cause the bands were loud. They were loud but I think they were good. They featured three bands, each with different genre(thank God) and Nick was demanding emo rock. Haha, I think he's a bit crazy already.

Nick: I WANT EMO ROCK. emo emo..
Ern: Emo rock? I think if they start to play emo rock I will walk out immediately.

They didn't play emo rock unfortunately. The first band was called Fish Tank and they play Garage Rock, much to my dismay at first. However they turned out quite good. Music was not bad, guitarists were good and the drums definitely did the trick. And oh! The lead singer was funny, Ern could imitate him pretty well. Just that his dance steps(or so I think), makes him somehow looks like he is having spasms. Like you know, involuntary muscular contractions. Hahah. It was garage rock no doubt, and good for a start. Apparently Nick somehow thinks that they are playing emo rock cause he wanted emo rock songs so badly. *haha*

Nick: Oh this is nice, emo rock.
Me+Ern: Errr, no?
Nick: Yes what, like emo rock.
Me: Emo rock is like My Chemical Romance that kind you know...
Ern: Yeah, that kind that goes 'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!' *started shrieking*

Haha, enough of emo rock already. So we finished with the first band. The second band came up and I forgot what was their name. The tops or something. Table Tops? Ha, don't know, never mind. Their music was fresh for a change. No more rock, they were lounge jazz. Not my kind of jazz but they sound good live. I think I enjoyed their performance best out of the 3 bands. Their first 3 songs were great. Subsequently I didn't quite stay with them. There was no song, no lyrics, just music. Keyboardist looks pro and Ern said something about the guitarist looking like a nerd. Lounge Jazz, interesting, very interesting.

By the time the third band came up on stage, we felt compelled to go home already. We finished the whole jar and even ate up all the ice cubes. We wanted so much to order somemore but comtemplated the possible cardiac arrests we might have when the bill comes. So we didn't, we just paid our tab and sat for a while more. The third band which I also forgot their name was doing Rock 'n' Roll. So it was loud, again. Ern commented something about it sounding vaguely like Bollywood(hahah!). The lead singer was really spoiling his voice in an attempt to deliver his song which I think is not bad by the way. So I will cut him some slack about those funny dance steps(yet again). I think the las t band is the loudest of them all so we didn't really want to stay on.

We left and cab home. Nick started giggling in the cab(im serious!) and we were talking. Just talking. I felt good. I mean it was fun and everything although they laughed at me and we blew $112 in such a short period of time. But we were just sharing lives, different kind of lives that 3 of us were living. Nick in Artillery Ern in Don't-know-Cannot-Say Department and me, a clumsy ntu chem engine student trying to do well for exams. It is really fun when we talk about what we do each day. My story is definitely lame and I don't want to talk about it. It is more fun hearing from Ern, hearing about the test he took with the lie-detector machine. So they actually do have such things ah. But why wouldnt they believe that Ern is straight? Hahahah! Does that show something? I wonder. Ha.

Ah, nice night people (: Nick wants next sat to be on even though he said he don't want to. Liar :P Next week The UnXpected is playing! Are we in or are we not?